Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Threatened by the courts with jail if he did not remove the troops, Boss Long went to Baton Rouge, saw his friend Governor Allen, emerged beaming: "The Governor called in his bodyguard and defied me. He told me to go to Hell." Score for the first week of "war" in New Orleans: killed, 0; injured...
...last week played England at Wimbledon in the challenge round for the Davis Cup, lost the first two matches, won the third. With the score 2-to-1 for England, the U. S. team could win this No. 1 tennis trophy only by repeating what it had done the week before against Australia...
...score was also two matches to one in favor of Australia when towheaded Sidney B. Wood Jr. went out to play Australia's Jack Crawford. Inspired tennis won two sets for Wood, 6-3, 9-7 before rain postponed play for the day (TIME, July 30). Next afternoon, Wood's touch deserted him and Crawford, deliberate, steady, workmanlike, evened the score, 6-4, 6-4. Wood finally found his game in the last set, won it and the match...
...took towering Frank Shields just an hour to deal with Australia's eccentric 18-year-old Vivian McGrath, who plays shots off his left side with two hands and who had unexpectedly beaten Wood the first day of play. The score was 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Shields's victory put the U. S. in the challenge round against England...
...opening match, Shields, serving wildly, lost the first game. Austin, sleek-haired, wearing ?3 flannel shorts, worked the score to 4-all, then broke Shields's serve, took the set, 6-4. Flustered by an opponent who refused to be stampeded by cannonball serves and occasional blistering volleys, Shields tried to pull his game together, managed to lead, 4-2, in the second set. Thereafter the match was all Austin...